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Martin Blume is Editor-in-Chief for the American Physical Society, on leave from his position as Senior Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He received a B.A. from Princeton and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard. Following a year as a Fulbright Fellow at Tokyo University and two years at the Theoretical Physics Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, England, he joined the Brookhaven Physics Department. At Brookhaven he has served as head of condensed matter theory, Chairman of the National Synchrotron Light Source Department, and Deputy Director of the Laboratory. He has also held a joint appointment as Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research has covered many areas of atomic and condensed matter physics, as well as the interface between condensed matter and nuclear physics. Since 1996 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the American Physical Society, with responsibility for all of the Physical Review journals, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics. Dr. Blume frequently writes and speaks about the challenge of electronic publishing and associated questions of intellectual property, archiving, peer review, the dual role of paper and electronic media, and the economic questions of cost minimization and recovery.
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